Re: Facespan versus Smile
Re: Facespan versus Smile
- Subject: Re: Facespan versus Smile
- From: Peter Fine <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 14:45:17 -0500
on 2/21/01 8:52 PM, Phi Sanders at email@hidden wrote:
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I once heard a rumor of this feature (probably on this list), and tried Smile
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(1.5 I think it was) but found that it seemed you could present customized
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dialogs from Smile, but not much else... FaceSpan & RealBasic allow you to
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create "stand-alone" applications, with GUIs as complex and diverse as
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"real" applications... If Smile can indeed do this, then it's not documented
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properly, and when corrected should make Smile the hands-down first choice
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script editor!!
Sorry to be late with this.
You can build a front end for a solution in Smile, including a UI (dialogs,
custom window types, etc.) but you have to run Smile to use it. Of course
Smile is freely distributable as well as free to use. If you were going to
use it for some of the things for which people use FaceSpan or Dialog
Director, you'd want to strip it down, which is doable but not documented.
In case you missed it, Smile is derived from an app created to be installed
on computers of Satimage's customers, running customer-specific solutions.
You could use Smile as a front end for the AppleScriptable version of
Valentina ("Vapp").
Having said all that, Smile isn't, and couldn't be, equivalent to REALbasic
and as presently configured it isn't equivalent to FaceSpan.
Peter